Privacy

Fwiw: signal is a honey pot, perhaps not by intent but by architecture.

Security postures are driven by capabilities not intentions.

Signal:

• centralized
• uses centralized push notifications
• stores encryption keys in the cloud SVR

Thus a three letter agency has the capability of breaking signal, even if they don't intend to.

As a thought experiment imagine you run the intelligence service of a non-us ally country (nk, Iran, China, Russia, etc) - would you in good faith recommend using signal, as is, for your classified and sensitive government communications?

Your life on the fediverse improves significantly if you just block the entire lemmy.ml and hexbear.net instances.

Lmao, bro Dessalines is legitimately the most cringe person on the entire internet. He literally will not comment outside his own instance, because he cannot handle any form of internet where he doesn't have his magic "win argument" ban button.

I’ve had hexbear blocked for so long, I actually forgot about it. Wow, that place is nuts!

Unfortunately I am considering creating lengthy black lists of trolls and irreversibly corrupted/poisoned instances. Still better than using a corporate operated political brainwashing platform.

I've gotten into it with tankies time and time again over Signal. They point to all this hypothetical nonsense repeatedly and then refuse to provide evidence. Signal, on the other hand, has proven that they either don't have this info or don't provide it over and over again through publicly-disclosed subpoenas, but the tankies continue to push this propaganda, which one can only reasonably conclude that they're bad-faith actors and just "haters" of all things American.

I don't give their opinions on China, Russia, NK, Iran, Ukraine, any sort of credibility. I've been banned from some of their comms but they're on point for pointing out the crimes and hypocrisy of the west, and there's a lot of deliberate effort to minimize their reach.

Fuck em' for defending authoritarianism but without them it's all propaganda from mass mainstream media and whitewashing of the west.

tldr: Fuck tankies and wankies trying to whitewash their atrocities with concern trolling.

I did that years ago

Don't subscribe to anything Lemmyml if you want to keep your sanity

Noooo "calling it "authoritarian" is meaningless"!!!

Stop "phrasemongering", it's "not fascism" when China pulls its shit! China also not guilty of Uyghur genocide, that's western propaganda you racist!

Smh. Tankie propaganda was making me mad, I'm actually glad I got banned off their subs for adamantly refusing to accept their lines of reasoning for their blatant, apologetic, wholly uncritical acceptance of china.

I got banned from their privacy instance for 3 days because of something that, imo, barely is justified by the rules they cited, while other people were being insufferably hostile. It may be one of the same posts you’re alluding to. Granted I let a troll bait me into getting frustrated (that’s on me). Mistermodal I believe the user name was. After that happened, I was seeing a lot of these same criticisms about ML on other communities. I paid more attention to how the people there conduct themselves, which coincides with your point. I’m still fairly new to the fediverse/lemmy entirely so I don’t quite know the lay of the land if they aren’t obvious in the name of the instance. I haven’t bothered going back because .world and other communities I frequent seem a little more normal, less unhinged, and less hypocritical.

Once had a ml slag try to reason to me that political censorship is good lol

It was high in "but but the those people over there are bad why can't I be?" energy.